Class literals in Kotlin

medium September 22, 2014, 2:01pm 7

I did not think of this syntax for method references when suggesting Something.class or classOf<Something> (method "references" are completely different in Scala). So I think Something::class would be fine.

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Class literals in Kotlin

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